Nintendo Switch stuck at second boot logo (nintendo switch logo)

[a4med]

Hi, Guys

This is Ahmed and i'm from pakistan . I'm very excited to be a part of GBATEMP family.

Need help for my switch. I was using my switch for quite some time and one night i left my switch and picked in the next morning the switch was shutdown. I tried to boot it but it gets stuck on the switch joycon logo and also tried the recovery mode but no luck. My is unpatched and it was running fine. Attached are some hekate fuses photos.

 

[binkinator]

Hi, Guys

This is Ahmed and i'm from pakistan . I'm very excited to be a part of GBATEMP family.

Need help for my switch. I was using my switch for quite some time and one night i left my switch and picked in the next morning the switch was shutdown. I tried to boot it but it gets stuck on the switch joycon logo and also tried the recovery mode but no luck. My is unpatched and it was running fine. Attached are some hekate fuses photos.

Any updates, upgrades, changes or mishaps? Something is different. We need your help, as our eyes and ears on location, to tell us what that change might be.

 

[a4med]

Any updates, upgrades, changes or mishaps? Something is different. We need your help, as our eyes and ears on location, to tell us what that change might be.

Hello Sir,

Can you help me on this please. I don't know what happened to my switch. I would be very grateful for this.

Thank you

 

[binkinator]

Hello Sir,

Can you help me on this please. I don't know what happened to my switch. I would be very grateful for this.

Thank you

Sure. Tell me about your Switch setup. How it was and what it looks like now.

e: I see it’s a V1 Erista.
what FW are you on?
which version of Atmosphere are you using?
what type of injector do you use?
have you recently updated anything?
did you follow any guides and if so, which one?

 

[a4med]

Sure. Tell me about your Switch setup. How it was and what it looks like now.

e: I see it’s a V1 Erista.
what FW are you on?
which version of Atmosphere are you using?
what type of injector do you use?
have you recently updated anything?
did you follow any guides and if so, which one?

it was 10.2.0

Using the latest Atmos 1.3.2
I use tegra Rcm from my pc
Nothing was updated
I was playing mario games with my brother
no guide was followed

 

[binkinator]

it was 10.2.0

Using the latest Atmos 1.3.2
I use tegra Rcm from my pc
Nothing was updated
I was playing mario games with my brother
no guide was followed

Your Firmware is from September of 2020 and your Atmosphere is less than 60 days old.
A strange combination but it should work. We’ll fix that later.

So you’ve made changes in the past month or so but don’t remember doing it?
Let’s see if I can guess what else you might have done over there and perhaps it will jog your memory.

Please post:

location of where you downloaded sigpatches
contents of your /bootloader/hekate_ipl.ini file
screenshot of your /bootloader/payloads/ directory
screenshot of your /atmosphere/contents directory

 

[a4med]

Your Firmware is from September of 2020 and your Atmosphere is less than 60 days old.
A strange combination but it should work. We’ll fix that later.

So you’ve made changes in the past month or so but don’t remember doing it?
Let’s see if I can guess what else you might have done over there and perhaps it will jog your memory.

Please post:

location of where you downloaded sigpatches
contents of your /bootloader/hekate_ipl.ini file
screenshot of your /bootloader/payloads/ directory
screenshot of your /atmosphere/contents directory

I'm sorry i don't remember the changes it was long time ago.

I downloaded ALL IN ONE package from Sthetix HATS 1.3.2

Hekate ipl file attached.

Payloader file attached.

Atmosphere Contents attached.

 

[a4med]

I'm sorry i don't remember the changes it was long time ago.

I downloaded ALL IN ONE package from Sthetix HATS 1.3.2

Hekate ipl file attached.

Payloader file attached.

Atmosphere Contents attached.

 

[a4med]

Your Firmware is from September of 2020 and your Atmosphere is less than 60 days old.
A strange combination but it should work. We’ll fix that later.

So you’ve made changes in the past month or so but don’t remember doing it?
Let’s see if I can guess what else you might have done over there and perhaps it will jog your memory.

Please post:

location of where you downloaded sigpatches
contents of your /bootloader/hekate_ipl.ini file
screenshot of your /bootloader/payloads/ directory
screenshot of your /atmosphere/contents directory

Hello Sir

I sent you the photos you need. Please advise on this.

Thank you

 

[binkinator]

Hello Sir

I sent you the photos you need. Please advise on this.

Thank you

Everything looks good. Have you tried unzipping the sthetix file on top of your SDCard again? It will ask if you want to overwrite. Just say ok and let it overwrite the files on the SDCard. That should fix everything short of a corrupt emunand so let’s see.

 

[a4med]

Everything looks good. Have you tried unzipping the sthetix file on top of your SDCard again? It will ask if you want to overwrite. Just say ok and let it overwrite the files on the SDCard. That should fix everything short of a corrupt emunand so let’s see.

After overwriting everything with the files i got this error.

Edit:

I formatted the memory card fat32 and transferred all the files from HATS 1.3.2. Still stuck on the 2nd Joycon Logo

 

[binkinator]

After overwriting everything with the files i got this error.

thats a great error. It tells us exactly what’s wrong. It would seem the firmware does n0t have exfat drivers (which is OK) so it means we must format the SDcard as fat32 (which is ideal anyway.)

we will need to make a new Emunand and redeploy the sthetix package again on a clean sd card.

you may want to use NxNandManager to copy your game saves. If yiu don’t care about game saves you can skip this step.

Next you will need to use something like rufus to erase everything and format your SDCard as fat32 with 32k block size.

Then recreate you emunand and redeploy sthetix and you should be good to go.

 

[mrgone]

the exfat/fat32 discrepancy does not really explain how you were still using it the night before.

 

[a4med]

thats a great error. It tells us exactly what’s wrong. It would seem the firmware does n0t have exfat drivers (which is OK) so it means we must format the SDcard as fat32 (which is ideal anyway.)

we will need to make a new Emunand and redeploy the sthetix package again on a clean sd card.

you may want to use NxNandManager to copy your game saves. If yiu don’t care about game saves you can skip this step.

Next you will need to use something like rufus to erase everything and format your SDCard as fat32 with 32k block size.

Then recreate you emunand and redeploy sthetix and you should be good to go.

That's a sigh of relief from my side.

Yes game saves not need

the exfat/fat32 discrepancy does not really explain how you were still using it the night before.

Maybe i inserted the wrong sd card.

 

[a4med]

thats a great error. It tells us exactly what’s wrong. It would seem the firmware does n0t have exfat drivers (which is OK) so it means we must format the SDcard as fat32 (which is ideal anyway.)

we will need to make a new Emunand and redeploy the sthetix package again on a clean sd card.

you may want to use NxNandManager to copy your game saves. If yiu don’t care about game saves you can skip this step.

Next you will need to use something like rufus to erase everything and format your SDCard as fat32 with 32k block size.

Then recreate you emunand and redeploy sthetix and you should be good to go.

That's a sigh of relief for me.

yes i don't need the game saves.

May i know what capacity of memory card i need to create the emunand. I'm using a 4 gb memory card.

 

[mrgone]

Maybe i inserted the wrong sd card.

that is a possible explanation, but in your first post you did not mention anything about having multiple sd cards

 

[binkinator]

That's a sigh of relief for me.

yes i don't need the game saves.

May i know what capacity of memory card i need to create the emunand. I'm using a 4 gb memory card.

There is no way that will work. You need 29G for the emunand. Expect at a minimum you will need double that so 64G is the bare minimum you should even consider. 128G or even more is ideal.

 

[a4med]

that is a possible explanation, but in your first post you did not mention anything about having multiple sd cards

No, i didn't Sir and i have 2 SD cards of 4 gb same brand maybe i switched them mistakenly. I use only 1 of them for switch.

 

[a4med]

There is no way that will work. You need 29G for the emunand. Expect at a minimum you will need double that so 64G is the bare minimum you should even consider. 128G or even more is ideal.

Okay Sir. I'll buy an SD card of 128 or 64 gb for my switch today.

 

[binkinator]

Okay Sir. I'll buy an SD card of 128 or 64 gb for my switch today.

I’m guessing you were running on Sysnand directly and possibly updated firmware without realizing it. Only thing I can think of that would allow you to operate with a 4G card.